A small brass wire cage with its door open and a paper bird perched outside it on a gray table.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

People aren't locked in by destiny, the speaker says; what really confines them is their own thinking. The metaphor of prison turns limiting beliefs into walls, suggesting the door may be more open than it looks.

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